Derek Winnert

Animal World [Dongwu shijie] *** (2018, Yi Feng Li, Dongyu Zhou, Michael Douglas) – Movie Review

They dress it up well, but this entire 132-minute Chinese thriller is based on a game of rock, paper, scissors. Now that is ingenious. Simple, slick and smart, Animal World [Dongwu shijie] is a winner. Yi […]

Jul, 03 · in Reviews

Girl of the Night *** (1960, Anne Francis, Lloyd Nolan, Kay Medford, John Kerr) – Classic Movie Review 7246

Get ready for ‘An Exciting Step Forward Into a New Realm of Adult Motion Pictures!’ Director Joseph Cates’s interesting 1960 black and white Warner Bros call girl drama Girl of the Night stars Anne Francis, […]

Jul, 03 · in Reviews

Otello **** (1986, Plácido Domingo, Katia Ricciarelli, Justino Díaz) – Classic Movie Review 7245

Plácido Domingo is in great, wonderful voice as Otello the Moor in director Franco Zeffirelli’s Otello (1986), an imaginative, lavish and splendid looking film of the marvellous Giuseppe Verdi opera, based on Shakespeare’s tragedy play, […]

Jul, 03

The Osterman Weekend *** (1983, Rutger Hauer, John Hurt, Burt Lancaster, Craig T Nelson, Dennis Hopper, Chris Sarandon, Meg Foster, Helen Shaver) – Classic Movie Review 7244

Hopes were high with the idea of Sam Peckinpah filming a Robert Ludlum novel in 1983 – a great union of two masters of their craft seemed in the making. But Sam Peckinpah’s final film […]

Jul, 02

Kid Glove Killer **** (1942, Van Heflin, Marsha Hunt, Lee Bowman, Samuel S Hinds) – Classic Movie Review 7243

Debut director Fred Zinnemann’s finely honed, tensely atmospheric 1942 film noir suspense thriller Kid Glove Killer stars Van Heflin, who gives a nifty turn in an early star role as Gordon McKay, a police forensic […]

Jul, 02

World Premiere *** (1941, John Barrymore, Frances Farmer, Eugene Pallette, Ricardo Cortez, Sig Ruman, Fritz Feld, Luis Alberni, Don Castle, Virginia Dale) – Classic Movie Review 7242

Director Ted Tetzlaff’s US 1941 Paramount Pictures wartime comedy stars John Barrymore as Miracle Films movie mogul Duncan DeGrasse who goes on a tour to publicise a new film and ends up confronting a couple […]

Jul, 02

Too Many Parents *** (1936, Frances Farmer, Lester Matthews, Porter Hall, Henry Travers) – Classic Movie Review 7241

Frances Farmer (19 September 1913 – 1 August 1970) made her film debut in Too Many Parents (1936). Alas, she was destined to make only 15 films, and is now more famous for her tragic story than her […]

Jul, 01

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